Synopsis
What would you risk for five minutes of pure power?
An ex-soldier, a teen and a cop collide in New Orleans as they hunt for the source behind a dangerous new pill that grants users temporary superpowers.
2020 Directed by Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
An ex-soldier, a teen and a cop collide in New Orleans as they hunt for the source behind a dangerous new pill that grants users temporary superpowers.
Jamie Foxx Joseph Gordon-Levitt Dominique Fishback Rodrigo Santoro Courtney B. Vance Amy Landecker Machine Gun Kelly Tait Fletcher Allen Maldonado Andrene Ward-Hammond Cory DeMeyers Jazzy De Lisser Yoshi Sudarso Jim Klock Azhar Khan Joseph Poliquin Kyanna Simone Simpson C.J. LeBlanc Mike Seal Kim Baptiste CG Lewis Oren Hawxhurst Chip Carriere Rose Bianco Theodus Crane Toney Chapman Steele Peter Jaymes Jr. Sam Malone Carli McIntyre Show All…
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Cool visuals! Perfect movie to put on in the background while you do something else. Is Casey Neistat contractually obligated to be offered a role in every movie made for Gen Z? Movies should not be allowed to use the line “This isn’t a movie, this is real life.”
The message I got from this is that most super powers suck and half of them apparently kill you
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dominique Fishback deliver outstanding performances in a film so obsessed with the idea of its own premise it fails to take it anywhere or even seem interested in doing so. Constantly reminding us about the superpower angle rather than using it to be relevant to its own story, it's one of those ridiculous films that insists on saying "this ain't a movie, this is real life" instead of embracing its potential. Take a pill, get superpowers for 5 minutes; how is this mostly such a generic thriller?
Okay but what if this is really an allegory for Netflix, their superpower being putting out good movies and that power only lasting for five minutes...
Genuinely surprised to find this perfectly adequate for an X-MEN knockoff. Some of the powers were neat, there were occasional bites of visually-inventive action, it's generally pretty, and Foxx is fun to watch. The execution of the subtext about disenfranchised communities being used as guinea pigs is pretty tin-eared, but also it absolutely belongs here, so I'd rather have it than not.
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Project Power is a 2020 American science fiction/superhero film directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost and stars Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dominique Fishback, Machine Gun Kelly, Rodrigo Santoro and Amy Landecker. The films storyline follows a police officer, former soldier and drug dealer as they team up to stop the distribution of a pill that gives the user superpowers for five minutes.
I’m a simple film lover, I’ve got a critical side and a fan side and for me this film comes into the fan side of my brain. If a film premise is cool and entertaining then of course I’m going to like the movie and Project Power is just that. The idea of taking…
Superhero fans jonesing for a fix during this depressing summer without blockbusters might get some small comfort from its generic stunts and superheroics. But even with its comic-book trappings and solid cast, Project Power just doesn’t cut it. It’s cinematic methadone; it might mitigate your withdrawals, but it won’t get you high.
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Project Power is, first and foremost, a sweet name for a Superhero movie. Jamie Foxx brings the well-showcased emotion, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt again proves why he’s so good at what he does. The glue here is Dominique Fishback, as she is the reason why it all works (both quality and cohesion). The story itself is extremely familiar, but this specific premise involving the power-pills is fresh. When we get into the “why” of it all, there isn’t much to get excited about. There is a storyline with Foxx’s Art that almost feels like an after-thought. That aspect is way too easy and simple. The meat here is when we get into…
”So the question is… what’s your power?”
The power to make a great premise rock?... Nope!
The power to make Joseph Gordon-Levitt shine yet again?... Nope!
The power to make Jamie Foxx the ultimate badass yet again?... Nope!
The power to do something interesting with a cool 5 minute plot device?... Nope!
The power to get viewers invested in original characters in an original way?... Nope!
The power to make a thought provoking, mind blowing action flick?... Nope! Nope! Nope!
”Yes, well… results may vary”
Filled with fog horn sound effects, unnecessary violence and trying to stay relevant with the kids in 2020, Netflix has made yet another very average action film that we’ve all seen hundreds of times before.
I swear, it's like people come to Netflix with legitimately interesting concepts and Netflix execs specifically go "Oh yeah, this is really cool, let's fuck it up in every way possible
Feels like an avengers movie where they are chasing down a shitty super soldier serum.
Casey Neistat being in the movie gives it a extra star
There’s nothing specifically wrong with this, except... it seems like I’ve already seen this movie. The plot feels like it’s made of drag-and-drop snippets of other storylines, like a Frankenstein of a few different plot ideas stitched together. We have the crime/street drug thread, the metahuman thread, the experiments on humans thread, the cop who gets away with doing illegal things for the greater good, the disenfranchised kid selling drugs to help a family member, the corrupt police force, a shady government that knows what’s happening but doesn’t stop it, a dad who is searching for his kidnapped daughter... theres probably 20 other really stereotypical ideas in here. And not a single one of those ideas felt like they were…
Küçücük 1 hap, sizi 5 dakikalığına süper kahraman yaparsa. Fikir muhteşem olunca, oyuncuların katkısıyla seyri hoş 1 film olmuş. Özel efektlerin başarısı, aksiyon sahnelerinin başarısıyla izletiyor. Filmin sonunda, Genesis gemisinde kurtarma operasyonu. İçimde 1 hayvan var. Öküz oturur.
Project Power was yet another superhero movie in the wave of superhero movies that the past decade had given us. I wouldn’t call it anything other than that. A somewhat interesting concept is brought to the table with this movie but it is executed very mediocrely in which I just felt as if I was watching CGI.I have never really been that critical when watching movies before but now I see them in a new light of horrible judginess which leads me down a trail where I enjoy things a bit less. But during the movie I tried to push this aside and just enjoy it. Unfortunately for me the movie didn’t bring much to the tabel to actively enjoy.…
The highlight of Project Power, apart from Dominique Fishback, is seeing my sister (a massive MGK superfan) pointing at the screen yelling "oh shit it's MGK!!!"
An intriguing concept that stands out among the sea of superhero movies, yet disappointingly falls back into a cliche "government trying to control us" narrative. Like yeah, it's true but it doesn't make your thin script any more compelling.
Cool action scenes though!
The idea was quite good but everything fell flat here. This film was even more meh than the parents in the Emoji movie.
A pill that gives you a super power. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jamie Foxx. What could possibly go wrong?
Cinema is an ebb and flow like anything else. Given all of the super hero films that have been setting all time highs at the boxes (at least pre pandemic). Some will argue we've reached the high water mark. Off the top, of my head, I think Guardians of the Galaxy was the MCUs highwater mark. DC never figured out how to get past the The Dark Knight.
Netflix and other studios attempting to break into the superhero genre face a competitive and well-funded market. Netflix has a lot of money too and Project Power demonstrates that. Unfortunately, it also demonstrates that…
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